April 17, 2025

A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons

Google DeepMind’s latest update to a top Gemini AI model includes a dial to control how much the system “thinks” through a response. The new feature is ostensibly designed to save money for developers, but it also concedes a problem: Reasoning models, the tech world’s new obsession, are prone to overthinking, burning money and energy…

June 2023

Apple M2 Ultra Mac Studio: Same shell, more firepower

June 12, 2023

“This completes the transition to Apple silicon,” Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus noted during last week’s WWDC keynote. Apple never promised the process would happen overnight. At the 2020 event, CEO Tim Cook promised a two-year transitionary period. The company missed the deadline by a year, but a lot has happened during […]

Apple M2 Ultra Mac Studio: Same shell, more firepower by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Hyper raises $3.6M from Amazon and more for its iPhone-based, VTuber-friendly avatar platform

June 12, 2023

VTubers — online personalities who use motion-capture-powered manga- and anime-inspired avatars to interact with the world alongside games, over YouTube, and in other places — have become big business, with the most popular of them collectively racking up hundreds of millions of hours of viewership in a month, along with loyal fan bases, lucrative sponsorships […]

Hyper raises $3.6M from Amazon and more for its iPhone-based, VTuber-friendly avatar platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch